helping organize x.org documentation

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:23:32AM +0300, Oliver McFadden wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 01:55 +0200, ext Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > Matt,
> > 
> > On 05/26/2010 04:12 PM, Matt Dew wrote:
> > > Ok here's a summary of current changes:
> > >
> > > 1) I used kernelnewbies.org as the template, so this page doesn't look
> > > like the xorg wiki.  (probably least important diff),
> > 
> > I guess you can remove "XOrg" from the top and let only the logo there.
> > 
> > Another issue to worry about is regarding the wiki engine. Is MoinMoin 
> > good enough for us? I'm totally dumb regarding these technologies but we 
> > should choose one easily to upgrade, maintain, customize, etc.
> 
> (I'm just jumping into the middle of the conversation, so my apologies
> if I have missed something.)
> 
> It's been a long time since I've looked at wiki software, but I remember
> the search engines being terrible except on MediaWiki.
> 
> MediaWiki also has a lot of cool features, is well maintained
> (Wikipedia...), and has support for 3rd party extensions:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Extension: (unorganized
> list, but you get the idea.)

We've had this discussion a few times already. Bottom line is - the wiki
engine can be perfect but if the content is crap the wiki is worthless.
I can see how setting up a new wiki would be more exciting than polishing
the existing content into shape, but that doesn't really address the issue.

Cheers,
  Peter